What Types of Medical Errors May Lead to a Claim?

Medical negligence can happen at almost any stage of patient care, including diagnosis, treatment, surgery, medication management, or follow-up care. Claims may involve misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis, surgical or procedural errors, medication and prescription errors, anesthesia errors, birth and delivery injuries, emergency room negligence, inadequate patient monitoring, premature discharge, or communication failures between medical professionals.

Sometimes the problem involves one provider. Other cases may reveal failures involving several professionals or an entire healthcare system, which is why an investigation often looks beyond the provider a patient assumes was responsible.